MrE1979

Headed to the Cape for the weekend hitting the Canal for some of the striped variety in the AM then hitting a few local ponds for some Monstah LM with my daughter. Hope I got some pictures to post up here for you guys. Happy 4th to everyone. Stay safe and tight lines!

The Holy Grail of fishing! But I already have one. Now go away or I shall taunt you a second time-a!

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If I need to add weight to a wacky rig I use some solder cut into small pieces and inserted in the middle of the bait then run my hook under it.

I hook through everything. I have used standard size electrical tape also.

Here are a few things that I do when I fish "senkos". Stop at the local Home Depot and grab some of the skinny electrical tape in multiple colors and use a few wraps around the senko put your hook through the tape. It works like the O ring to not ruin the worm but you can add color to your bait. Sometimes I don't put the hook through the middle of the senko I will hook it 1/3 of the way down it changes the presentation quite a bit. I also carry a lighter with me. When the bait rips heat it up and put it back together. Found it works better than glue.

Hey all you MA guys new to the site. Live in Worcester. Love fishing new places and fishing with new people. Met a lot of great guys on iceshanty.com and myfishfinder.com. Hope I can get to meet some of you.

Don't know how that happened. How do I remove a post?

Webster lake is great fishing. Has some awesome smallies in it. You need a boat to fish it tho.

When the water is frozen 20+" I am not the guy to drill a thousand holes so I can jig with a lure so.... I drill 5 and use shiners on my tip-ups. If I lived somewhere where the water doesn't freeze maybe I could use a hard lure and share what I used. Just sayin

One thing to remember when top water fishin is to count to 3 before you set the hook. If they are missing your lure completely try slowing your retrieve.

If you could only have ONE lure what would you pick. I'll even give you season. No soft plastics it has to be hard. Winter. A shiner and my trusty Indian Hill tip-ups. Spring. Spinner bait with a big willow blade Summer. Split back jitterbugs in black Fall. Suspending jerk bait minnow colored

The other thing that you could do us get a big dog. That's my alarm system. Part German shepherd part Anatolian shepherd. Back is at 36" and he weighs 90lbs. GL getting in my house.

I like cameras and he doesn't need to put in a million of them. A camera pointing at a doorway or main travel way would hopefully give you a picture of the person(s) who broke into your house. Makes looking for someone easier than no picture at all. One door in the garage than a camera INSIDE covering the door and some of the garage. 2 doors in your house than 2 cameras INSIDE pointing at the doors. A thief isn't going to carry your stuff out a window. Maybe a small motion sensor style camera above the door so you can see who is walking out.

Nice fish. My 9yo daughter fishes with me also. I love when she lands a nice fish.

No catfish that I have ever seen. Plus would a catfish hit a top water baits in 5 fow?

Sorry to hear about your gear. Time to install some cameras.

Try fishin at dusk into dark with a big split back jitterbug. I use the black one and when that isn't working I switch to the perch colored one. You have to find the best retrieval speed for that particular day but when you do

Drag SCREAMING faster than I could get line in. My buddy in my boat saying Oh my god man listen to the drag. Fought her for 5 minutes before all of the sudden NOTHING. Reeled the lure in empty. It was either the local beaver hooked in the tail or a MONSTAH bass. Wish I knew.

Well said MFBAB. My 2 cents... It didn't go to waste someone had a good meal. Now if you were just killing them for fun that would be different.

OF COURSE it's a good day to go fishin. A bad day fishin is better than a good day with the wife.

It's definitely a LMB

I will talk to a few guys I know and see where they fish the "Dirty Water". Don't know to many guys that fish the Mystic tho.

I would try top water baits at dusk into dark. A Zara spook or a jitterbug in black would probably produce well for you. Try different retrieval speeds until you find the right one. The big ones come out to play at night.